We do face a serious national crisis in Canada. It is not caused by a few rail and road blockades by First Nations activists and their allies, however. Nor is…
The winters around here are long. Even with social media Canadians need a February holiday. Come to think of it, given what the Internet has turned into in the few…
Thank you to the Wet’suwet’en people who are courageously defending their land for the greater good of us all. Thank you to the Kahnawake people who are courageously blocking the…
Thank you to the Wet’suwet’en people who are courageously defending their land for the greater good of us all. Thank you to the Kahnawake people who are courageously blocking the…
Thank you to the Wet’suwet’en people who are courageously defending their land for the greater good of us all. Thank you to the Kahnawake people who are courageously blocking the…
Dear Mr. Horgan, I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs. You are the premier of this province, our highest ranking leader. Sending Scott Fraser…
We interrupt this blog with an important bulletin from the Stable Reliable Liberal Democracy of Alberta! In an unexpected move, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced he will seek social…
Peter MacKay has hit a rough patch. Weird social media. Policy incoherence. Crummy French. Interviews going awry. Sure, he’s coughed up the big entrance fee, and proffered the requisite number…
There’s a small but important update to the story about Jason Kenney’s conspiracy theorizing in Washington at the end of last week. According to the man who served as the…
This is the weekend where OLP members are voting for delegates to help choose the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. This is what the leadership campaigns were doing the membership…
Does anyone actually believe Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s startling claim that Gerald Butts, then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary, secretly conspired with the White House in 2015 to engineer…
Dauphin Correctional Centre. Photo by Danton Unger/CTV News. On January 24, 2020 Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government announced that it will permanently close the 61-person Dauphin jail and not replace…
Self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, speaks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/AFP. Last week, Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The…
This poor guy is the process server who was tasked with delivering @MaximeBernier’s lawsuit against me for suggesting he promotes racism. I insisted we take a picture together in the…
You win some, you lose some. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney won one yesterday with the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down a challenge by a group…
Frontman and guitarist Chris Hannah of the Winnipeg-based thrash-punk band Propaghandi during a show in Brisbane, Australia, May 29, 2011. This summer will mark 30 years since the start of…
Still image from “Jacques Cartier” (1991), part of Heritage Minutes, a collection of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. The Minutes integrated Canadian history, folklore…
A sticker seen in Montreal on May 20, 2019 referring to Québec’s ban on religious symbols enacted by Bill 21. Photo from Flickr. During the federal election, Bloc Québécois leader…
Justin Trudeau unveiled his full election campaign in early October, 2019, which included a new Canada Child Benefit and reduced income tax for the middle class. In the 2019 federal…
